Steve,
I does seem that you and I are looking at new m/b's! Yes, I agree with
your pause at replacing caps on a m/b. Yes there are many layers. Scary
to me. In my case, I 'un-retired' an old A7N8X-deluxe w/AMD Barton 2500+
so I could could read Forums in my 'server/NAS room.' This dang PC
would not 'NOT' install its' Marvell Yukon NIC at each reboot. Yes, I
did disable the on-board NIC in BIOS. So either BIOS is dorked, or the
PC was so in love this the on-boardNIC, the PC would boot up with a dead
internet connection. I'm two days into watching this behavior. The PC
was built in 2008, so I've goten reasonable life from it. And, Yes,
FORC5, it did start telling 'bad time' toward it's 1st retire. Now, I
just don't care. For Spring, I plan to gut the case and build a new PC.
In time, I will ask the List for thought/opinions for sure!
Best,
Duncan
On 02/05/2014 11:02, Steve Tomporowski wrote:
With all the snow hitting CT today, I took a vacation day, we probably
got close to 10".
Anyways, my music computer refused to start initially yesterday, but
then it started. Today, no go. It's a Gigabyte P45 board with an
E8500 that served me well for quite a few years. So I started to
troubleshoot it. The initial ideas that came to mind were: Bad On
button, bad power supply, bad line cord. The line cord checked out
okay, so I went right to the main power connector to check the +5V
standby. It read 2.5V. I pulled the plug and the voltage now read
5.18V. Since it could still be a failing power supply (under load), I
grabbed a 400W Seasonic that I had lying around and plugged it in.
The Standby voltage was 3.8V now, but it was dropping. It attempted
to start, but basically would spin up, die, spin up, rinse, repeat.
That was the same behavior that has periodically plagued this system
for a number of years. So I'm guessing that whatever was going bad has
finally completely gone bad.
So, did I miss anything here? Looks like new MB time. Of course it
has occurred to me that this is also the behavior I'd get from a bad
cap. The problem with taking caps off MBs is that it takes so much
heat since there's lots of ground plane.
Steve
